Doping

Chronology of Coverage

Mar. 24, 2015

South Korean swimmer Park Tae-hwan is barred for 18 months following positive result for testosterone in an out-of-competition drug test. MORE

Mar. 19, 2015

Settlement is reached in long-running defamation suit brought by former trainer Roger McNamee against Roger Clemens, seven-time Cy Young Award winning pitcher; details of payment are unspecified. MORE

Mar. 19, 2015

American tennis star Wayne Odesnik is barred 15 years from sport after urine samples test positive for multiple banned substances. MORE

Mar. 18, 2015

Lance Armstrong meets with nemesis Travis Tygart, head of the United States Anti-Doping Agency, in effort to begin process of overturning his lifetime doping ban from sports. MORE

Mar. 9, 2015

Reform commission appointed by International Cycling Union finds that widespread doping was overlooked for years by ICU officials, mainly in deference to iconic rider Lance Armstrong; faults former ICU presidents Hein Verbruggen and Pat McQuaid who oversaw significant growth of organization as doping problem grew. MORE

Feb. 21, 2015

Feb. 18, 2015

Tyler Kepner On Baseball column examines Alex Rodriguez's return to New York Yankees baseball after serving year's suspension for doping; argues that after being duped twice by Rodriguez's lies and cheating, fans have little faith left, and little patience for apologies. MORE

Feb. 18, 2015

Anthony Bosch is sentenced to four years in federal prison for his part in the Biogenesis of America doping scandal; was charged with posing as a doctor and illegally supplying steroid injections and other performance-enhancing drugs to professional baseball players and even high school athletes. MORE

Feb. 18, 2015

New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez issues brief, handwritten apology for behavior that led to his one-year doping suspension; does not explicitly admit to using performance-enhancing drugs; apology comes as Rodriguez prepares to return to team. MORE

Feb. 17, 2015

Juliet Macur Sports of The Times column recounts ugly and ongoing battle between disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong and SCA Promotions, which awarded him millions of dollars for several of his Tour de France wins; latest salvo has SCA asking Texas judge to confirm arbitration panel decision and force Armstrong to pay back $10 million because he lied under oath about doping. MORE

Feb. 7, 2015

New York Yankees are set to meet with Alex Rodriguez, who was suspended from baseball for the entire 2014 season because of using performance-enhancing drugs. MORE

Jan. 26, 2015

Karen Crouse On Golf column notes that professional golfers will face less predictable and more stringent doping enforcement as their sport returns to the Olympics in 2016; observes that golfers will now be under the purview of the World Anti-Doping Agency. MORE

Jan. 21, 2015

Five Russian racewalkers are banned by their country's Anti-Doping Agency, including Olympic champions Sergei Kirdyapkin and Olga Kaniskina. MORE

Dec. 4, 2014

Nov. 30, 2014

Op-Ed article by author Alex Hutchinson contends case of South African cyclist Daryl Impey, who was exonerated of doping charges, is a reminder that doping is not as black and white as it appears to some fans; observes that part of reason some commentators think doping rules should be altogether eliminated is the apparent arbitrary distinction between good and bad pills. MORE

Nov. 29, 2014

Italian Olympic Committee is seeking ban of more than four years for figure skater Carolina Kostner, for allegedly helping Olympic race walking gold medalist Alex Schwazer, avoid a drug test. MORE

Nov. 13, 2014

Former trainer Brian McNamee's defamation suit against Roger Clemens continues as MLB commissioner Bud Selig, whose legacy is clearly hanging in the balance, prepares to depart his office at end of January. MORE

Nov. 7, 2014

Julier Macur Sports of The Times column contends that, even if it is unfair, failure of Kenyan marathon runner Rita Jeptoo to pass initial screening for endurance-boosting substance EPO raises questions about the credibility of every Kenyan winner. MORE

Nov. 6, 2014

Juliet Macur Sports of The Times column holds that as Alex Rodriguez returns to New York Yankees with his drug-laden baggage after serving a season-long doping suspension, some people are actually feeling sorry for Yankees. MORE

Nov. 6, 2014

Miami Herald reports that New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs after federal prosecutors granted him immunity in investigation of Anthony Bosch, owner of South Florida rejuvenation clinic Biogenesis of America. MORE

Nov. 5, 2014

MLB Roundup; Alex Rodriguez, emerging from doping ban, could face lingering legal woes well into spring training with the New York Yankees; unsealed documents in federal case against Yuri Sucart, Rodriguez's cousin, raise possibility that Rodriguez could be called to testify when Sucart is scheduled for jury trial in Miami in February; other baseball items noted. MORE

Nov. 4, 2014

Kenyan athletics officials say marathoner Rita Jeptoo’s positive doping test was for the blood booster erythropoietin, known as EPO. MORE

Nov. 1, 2014

Kenyan distance runner Rita Jeptoo tests positive for unnamed banned substance, second high-profile female marathoner to be entangled in doping scandal in 2014; second sample of same test must come back positive for her to be found guilty of a doping violation by International Assn of Athletics Federations, track and field's international governing body. MORE

Oct. 21, 2014

Michael Powell Sports of The Times column holds that when former San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds threw out the first pitch for Game 4 of National League Championships Series, it was an overdue return for a man on which inflated blame was heaped during MLB's steroids era. MORE

Oct. 17, 2014

Anthony Bosch, former owner of South Florida anti-aging clinic tied to doping, pleads guilty to charges of illegally providing performance-enhancing drugs to athletes including high-profile Major League Baseball players, most notably Alex Rodriguez. MORE

Oct. 10, 2014

William C Rhoden Sports of The Times column holds that fans cannot tell baseball to get rid of steroids and then grumble when they get low-scoring games; says rise of pitchers has coincided with the apparent decline in the use of performance-enhancing and performance-sustaining drugs like steroids and amphetamines; some hitters, for sure, have suffered. MORE

Oct. 5, 2014

National Football League will begin testing for human growth hormone, nearly three weeks after the league and its players agreed to a revised drug policy. MORE

Oct. 4, 2014

Prominent trainer Doug O'Neill will be barred from entering horses in the Breeders' Cup after being suspended by the New York State Gaming Commission in connection with a positive drug test on one of his horses at Belmont Park. MORE

Oct. 3, 2014

Prominent horse trainer Doug O'Neill is suspended for 45 days and fined $10,000 by the New York State Gaming Commission after one of his horses tested positive for a banned substance following 2013 race at Belmont Park. MORE

Sep. 20, 2014

NFL Roundup; NFL and players union say they have finished overhauling their substance abuse policy, less than a week after they updated similar policy for performance-enhancing drugs; other football news noted. MORE

Sep. 18, 2014

NFL Roundup; NFL and players' union announce that have reached agreement on new drug-testing protocol; most significant change is that players will be tested for human growth hormone for the first time; other football news noted. MORE

Sep. 18, 2014

Denver Broncos wide receiver Wes Welker is reinstated after NFL agrees to a new drug policy. MORE

Sep. 14, 2014

NFL players union says it hopes to have final agreement very soon on sweeping overhaul of league's protocols on drugs and performance-enhancing substances; other football news noted. MORE

Sep. 13, 2014

NFL Players Assn unanimously approves new policies on substance abuse and performance-enhancing drugs, paving way for overhaul of a program that dates to 2006; NFL voices reservations about proposed deal, saying it has unresolved issues. MORE

Sep. 13, 2014

Baltimore Orioles sweep New York Yankees, 2-1 and 5-0, in doubleheader; Orioles win despite playing first games without slugging infielder Chris Davis, who was suspended 25 games for amphetamine use. MORE

Sep. 7, 2014

NFL and the NFL Players Association are nearing an agreement to overhaul the league’s drug policy; the sides have all but agreed on introducing testing for human growth hormone. MORE

Sep. 4, 2014

Michael Powell Sports of The Times column questions whether Denver Broncos wide receiver Wes Welker, who has suffered three concussion, should return to the field after serving 4-week suspension for violating the NFL's policy on performance-enhancing drugs. MORE

Sep. 3, 2014

Denver Broncos wide receiver Wes Welker will be suspended four games for violating NFL's policy on performance-enhancing substances; penalty removes one of the defending champion's pivotal offensive assets less than a week before season opener. MORE

Aug. 14, 2014

Former world champion runner Amantle Montsho of Botswana faces two-year suspension for testing positive for banned substance at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. MORE

Aug. 11, 2014

Joe Drape On Horse Racing column notes that Jockey Club chairman Ogden Mills Phipps says his organization will seek federal legislation to empower United States Anti-Doping Agency to rewrite horse racing’s drug rules, upgrade its testing and come up with stiff and meaningful penalties for horsemen who break the rules; holds it is important that Club concedes sport needs someone from outside to restore law and order. MORE

Aug. 6, 2014

Alex Rodriguez has abandoned highly combative tone and strategy that made headlines for long period following his year-long doping suspension; new conciliatory approach, exemplified in his hiring of measured and respected criminal lawyer Jim Sharp, indicates that Rodriguez is now seeking a more amicable relationship with the New York Yankees and MLB's leaders. MORE

Aug. 6, 2014

Anthony P Bosch, founder of Biogenesis and troubled businessman at center of South Florida doping scandal, surrenders to Drug Enforcement Administration agents; prosecutors charge Bosch and a half-dozen of his associates with distributing anabolic steroid testosterone to hundreds of people, including high school athletes and multimillionaire superstars. MORE

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